THE FOLLOWING TERMS 



Being frequently used in a vague and indefinite manner, it will be of advantage 

 to the reader to know beforehand the sense in which they are applied in this 

 work. Other terms of less frequent use, or of various meaning, are explained 

 in an alphabetical order in the General Index. 



Agriculture is used in its most extensive swise in the third line of the title page, and 

 generally in the Historical part of the work (Part I.) as including territorial economy 

 and husbandry. 



In most parts of this work, for example, in the words of the title page, " animal and 

 vegetable productions of Agriculture," as synonymous with husbandr)\ 



In sei'era/ ^;/aces as synonymous with aration, that is, the culture of arable lands, as 

 opposed to pasturage, or what may be called Agriculture proper. In every case the 

 reader will be able to gather from the scope of the sentence or paragraph containing this 

 term, in which of these three senses it is meant to be understood. 



Territorial economy, what relates to the valuation, purchase, sale, exchange, arrange- 

 ment, improvement by roads, canals, drainage, &c., of territorial surface, including 

 interposing waters, as rivers, lakes, and also mines and minerals. Territorial improve- 

 ments are mostly effected by the proprietors of lands or their agents and stewards, and 

 not to any great extent by renters of land, or farmers. 



Husbandry, the culture of arable grass and woodlands, the management of live stock, 

 the dairy, poultry, &c., and, in general, what constitutes the business of the head of a 

 family living by agricultural industry in the country. 



Rural economy, rural affairs, geoponics, agronomics, terms considered as synonymous 

 with husbandry. 



Farming, renting land and cultivating it, or employing it for the purposes of hus- 

 bandry. 



Farmer (from Jermier, Fr.), farming agriculturist, farming cultivator, profes- 

 sional farmer, commercial farmer, rent-paying farmer, &c. ; a proprietor cultivating 

 his own estate, is not " correctly speaking a farmer, to be such he must pay a rent. A 

 proprietor who cultivates his own soil may be a gentleman or yeoman agriculturist or 

 husbandman, a proprietaire cultivateur, but not a farmer. 



Husbandman, one who farms generally ; that is, who both produces corn and cattle, and 

 attends to the dairy, the poultry, the woodlands, and the orchard. A farmer may con- 

 fine himself to grazing, or to breeding or haymaking, or milking or raising green crops 

 for the market, &c., but in none of these cases can he with propriety be called a husband- 

 man. This term husbandman therefore is not exactly synonymous with farmer. 



Grasses, all the natural order of Gramineae, of Linnaeus and Jussieu. 



Cereal grasses, those grown for bread corn. 



Pasture grasses, those grown chiefly for pasturage. 



Fceniculous grasses, those grown chiefly for hay. ^, 



Herbage plants, clover and other plants cultivated chiefly for the herb, to be used 

 either green or made into hay. 



Foliage crops, plants cultivated for their leaves to be used green, and which will not 

 make into hay, as the cabbage tribe. 



Root crops, esculent plants cultivated for their tubers, bulbs, or other enlarged parts 

 produced under or immediately on the ground, and chiefly connected with the root, as 

 the potatoe, turnip, carrot, &c. 



Roots, the fibres and other ramifications of a plant imder ground, and by which it 

 imbibes nourishment. Tubers, buUis, and other fleshy protuberances under ground, 

 are employed by nature for the purposes of propagation or continuation, and therefore 



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